SOURCE: ACHIEVEINAFRICA
Facts on Girls’ Education in Africa
- A girl who finishes basic education is 3 times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS. (USAID)
- If all women in sub-Saharan Africa finished secondary education, 1.8 million lives could be saved annually. (USAID)
- Nearly half (47%) of primary school aged girls are not attending school. (Nation Master)
- For every year that a girl remains in school beyond 4th grade, their wages increase 20%. (USAID)
- Between 2004 and 2010, pregnancy among Tanzanian girls aged 15 to 19 years fell by about 12%. Still, more than 40% of young women begin having children by age 18, and the country has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world. (UNICEF)
- In 2010, a survey showed that at least 93% of girls from the wealthiest households completed primary education, as compared to only 54% from the poorest families. (The Citizen)
- Girls in urban areas of Tanzania were eight times more likely to finish secondary education than girls in rural areas. (The Citizen)
- In Tanzania, 49% of girls among the wealthiest households compared with only 9% from the poorest families complete secondary education. (The Citizen)
- Globally, 69 million school-age children are not currently attending school. (The New York Times)
- Currently, Tanzanian children are expected to receive 5.3 years of schooling in their lifetimes. (UN)
- About 58% of 5-to- 6-year-olds in Tanzania do not attend pre-primary schools, which serves as a foundation for better educational outcomes. (The Citizen)
- There are 604,378 primary-school aged children who do not currently attend school. (Nation Master)
- Only 72% of students complete primary school. (Nation Master)
- The student-teacher ratio in Tanzanian primary schools is 55.86 students per teacher. (Nation Master)
- Two thirds of Tanzanian children do not go on to secondary school. (UNICEF)
- Only 0.7% of students enroll in tertiary education. (Nation Master)
- Many of the 7.6 million young Tanzanian children today are living in poverty. (The Citizen)
- Typically, poor countries devote budgets for education disproportionately to universities and higher education, because urban, middle-class students and their families have political clout. Consequently, primary schools in rural areas and urban slums are widely neglected. (The New York Times)
- 88% of Tanzania schoolchildren in urban areas were attending primary school, as compared with 78% in rural schools. (The Citizen)
- For each year of school completed, an individual’s earnings increase by 10%. (USAID)
- On average, Tanzanian adults have had 5.1 years of schooling. (UN)
- Less than three-quarters (73%) of Tanzanian adults are literate. (World Bank)
- Among Tanzanians aged 15 to 24 years, 79% of males and 76% or females are literate. (World Bank)
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